EIN 04-3273525

Brazilian Worker Center

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
7
Year formed
1995
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
Brazilian Worker Center empowers Brazilian immigrants by unifying them to fight against economic, social and political marginalization. It is a grassroots community organization that supports immigrants with issues on workplace rights and immigration. The organization instructs the community to execute their rights through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership, and capacity building. Additionally, it capacitates immigrant workers in learning about workplace rights, immigration, health equity through promoting economic, social and political justice. It is located in Allston, MA.
Also known as...
Brazilian Immigrant Center
Total revenues
$1,421,029
2022
Total expenses
$1,084,178
2022
Total assets
$595,852
2022
Num. employees
7
2022

Program areas at Brazilian Worker Center

The Brazilian Worker Center is a non-profit organization that capacitates immigrant workers to learn about workplace rights, immigration, and health equity. The organization empowers immigrants with knowledge and skills to promote economic, social, political, and racial justice for all. The bwc has established itself as a reputable, engaged, grassroots organization that represents, supports, and organizes the Brazilian and wider immigrant community to take leadership in defending and advocating for their rights, as workers and immigrant residents of the state and nation. It is a strong women-led organization that serves immigrant communities with a concern for fairness and justice, civic engagement, cultural competence, and compassion. Bwc's service categories include 1) know your rights workshops, 2) health and wellness initiatives, 3) coalition building and campaign organizing, 4) building justice, 5) leadership development, and 6) community support services. Know your rights workshops: the Brazilian Worker Center offers in person workshops for workers and domestic workers on workers' rights and labor laws every 15 days at our office located at 14 harvard ave, 2nd floor, allston. Our workers' rights project is our core program and is the foundation for all the initiatives, activities, educational sessions, and training that take place at bwc. In the last four years we have recouped approximately $3.5 million in restitution for workers, by direct mediation, through complaint referrals to state and federal labor authorities, or in small claims courts. Health and wellness initiatives: mulheres vencedoras is a women-led project developed and implemented by the Brazilian Worker Center, Inc. This mindfulness-based project intervention aims to disseminate the importance of mental health and wellness among immigrant workers who may experience chronic health issues, including cancer and anxiety, among others.leadership development: at bwc, we assist immigrants with general information about the us legal system and differences between federal agencies and offer multiple programs to contribute to their capacity building. Among programs offered are: osha programs - the Brazilian Worker Center has considerable experience delivering occupational safety and health training to workers in several industries common among immigrant workers in our community. Under the support of six susan harwood targeted training and capacity building grants since 2011, we have given portuguese- and spanish-language fall prevention training for residential construction. As of 2021, we are also offering infectious diseases and covid-19 programs for workers.dreamers: empowerment program for immigrant youth - the dreamers project aims to capacitate immigrant youth, particularly spanish- and portuguese- speaking latinos with various knowledge and skills necessary to become empowered and productive citizens in the greater boston area. Bwc has co-founded the Massachusetts immigrant collaborative (mic). The purpose of the collaboration is to address immigrant families' most urgent needs by providing direct financial relief and other resources. Joining forces has allowed mic to serve more than 13,000 immigrants since april 13, 2020. Coalition building and campaign organizing: coalition building and campaign organizing are two very important components of the bwc's work. Bwc co-chairs the driving families forward coalition on behalf of the work and family mobility act as well as the coalition to advance the wage theft bill in collaboration with afl-cio. Bwc was also a key leader in the four-year campaign to achieve a Massachusetts domestic workers bill of rights in 2014. Since then, bwc created the domestic Worker advocacy project (dwan) to educate workers and employers about their rights and responsibilities under the new law. Bwc's domestic Worker rights booklet is used in this work; with partners such as studio rev of new york, and northeastern nu law lab, bwc also created a know your rights and workplace safety hotline for domestic workers; and, developed a new osha safety and health course for domestic workers in 2015. Community support services: housing program - immigrants who reside in the greater boston area can reach out to and visit the Brazilian Worker Center to request assistance with applying for rent support with local rent assistance programs. Bwc can assist with making phone calls and reading and interpreting corresponding forms.family support services - arriving in a new country can be very challenging especially when immigrants have school age children. The Brazilian Worker Center can contact local schools on behalf of families and students and assist with school registration. Additionally, the organization can support recently arrived families with check-in and communication via phone and emails with federal agencies, when needed; support families of detainees who need assistance with registering a commissary account at detention centers; provide information about how to pay fines and how to pay child support online; support with responding to jury duty; and, give family orientation sessions about how to make bank transfers and send money to inmates; among other services.immigrants - the Brazilian Worker Center can assist immigrants with making phone calls with employers in response to wage theft cases and other types of injustice towards employees, as well as with referring immigrants to local private attorney partners and other organizations and agencies that can provide consultations and mediations, when needed.facilitating reading comprehension and interpreting documents and making phone calls in english - language barriers can be very challenging. Therefore, the Brazilian Worker Center offers support by assisting members of our immigrant community to read and interpret various documents and forms, which may not be available in their native language, as well as with making phone calls in english, when needed.public notary services - if our fellow immigrants require public notary services, they can visit us at 14 harvard avenue, 2nd floor, allston, ma 02134, or schedule an appointment via phone at 617-783-8001 or email at [email protected] justice: building justice is an innovative Worker committee, funded by the Brazilian Worker Center in partnership with justice at work (j@w), responsible for monitoring and taking action on wage theft cases in the community.food pantry: because of the covid-19 pandemic, immigrant communities were severely impacted by unemployment, hunger, and financial emergencies - large and small - for their families. In 2021, bwc implemented a weekly food pantry ("food for all in solidarity") operation that typically served 600 or more families, or about 2,000-3,000 community members per week. We were leaders in initiating this relief together with the city of boston, philanthropic partners, and the Massachusetts immigrant collaborative, a coalition of 15 immigrant-serving organizations that we co-founded, and on whose executive committee we served through the pandemic. We also awarded small cash grants to families to meet emergency needs, for such items as prescription medications and utility bills. The emergency covid-19 support ended during 2022.

Grants made by Brazilian Worker Center

GranteeGrant descriptionAmount
Brazilian Policy CenterBasebuilding Project - Complete Count Grant Program$40,000

Who funds Brazilian Worker Center

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
NEO PhilanthropyProgram Grant$150,000
Rian Immigrant Center (IIIC)Support and Assistance To Immigrant Communities Across Massachusetts$75,656
Hyams FoundationGeneral Support$60,000
...and 10 more grants received

Personnel at Brazilian Worker Center

NameTitleCompensation
Lenita ReasonExecutive Director$70,594
Anna BarbosaDirector of Development
Natalicia TracyPast Former Executive Director$96,445
Jose VenancioPresident$0
Cristina BrinkerhoffSecretary$0
...and 8 more key personnel

Financials for Brazilian Worker Center

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,396,895
Program services$22,340
Investment income and dividends$0
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$1,794
Total revenues$1,421,029

Form 990s for Brazilian Worker Center

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-10-23990View PDF
2021-122022-11-11990View PDF
2020-122021-11-12990View PDF
2019-122021-04-14990View PDF
2018-122020-01-14990View PDF
...and 11 more Form 990s
Data update history
July 13, 2024
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $50,000 from Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation
June 29, 2024
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
February 3, 2024
Received grants
Identified 4 new grant, including a grant for $150,000 from NEO Philanthropy
December 1, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
November 27, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 2 new vendors, including , and
Nonprofit Types
Social advocacy organizationsHuman service organizationsEthnic centersCharities
Issues
Human servicesImmigration
Characteristics
Political advocacyLobbyingReceives government fundingTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
Address
14 Harvard Ave 2
Allston, MA 02134
Metro area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
County
Suffolk County, MA
Website URL
braziliancenter.org/ 
Phone
(617) 783-8001
IRS details
EIN
04-3273525
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1995
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
P84: Ethnic, Immigrant Centers and Services
NAICS code, primary
813319: Social Advocacy Organizations
Parent/child status
Independent
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